The Shocking Truth About Pharmacy: A Pharmacist Reveals All The Disturbing Secrets

Book Synopsis: In this explosive new book, Dennis Miller pulls the curtain wide open and exposes many previously hidden facts that are downright terrifying about pharmacy, drugs, pharmacists and chain drug stores. This is the first-ever in-depth expose' of pharmacy written by a pharmacist. The author takes readers behind the prescription counter and reveals a wide range of critical insights that are not available anywhere else. This is an extremely important and urgently needed book for both pharmacists and the general public. It can--and should--permanently change the world of pills. It is a long overdue expose' of the lies, hype, deceptions, distortions, and magical thinking that are so pervasive in this field. The author hopes that the price of this book will not limit readership of the book and thus he is offering it at the lowest allowable price (99 cents). The author is not interested in profiting financially from this book.

The author hopes that this book prompts a widespread discussion of the critical issues regarding pharmacists, pharmaceuticals, pharmacy and, indeed, the viability of the profession. The author is not aware of any other book on the market that exposes the shocking truth from the perspective of a pharmacist. This book includes dozens of e-mails the author received from pharmacists as a result of his commentaries for nearly two decades in Drug Topics, one of the most popular magazines for pharmacists. These pharmacists’ e-mails reveal a very disturbing side of pharmacy about which the public is almost certainly unaware. With pharmaceuticals playing such a pivotal role in American society, the public urgently needs to understand how pharmacists have been complicit in legitimizing and promoting pill solutions for every conceivable health or medical problem. Pharmacy customers often say things like this to pharmacists: "I'm not sure whether I really want to take this drug my doctor prescribed. What do you think? Do you think it's safe?" Pharmacy customers need to understand pharmacists' attitudes and biases to fully appreciate the very wide variety of responses.

Some of the issues discussed in this book include:

• What do pharmacists really think about the drugs they dispense?
• Have pharmacists swallowed Big Pharma's Kool-Aid?
• Why are so many pharmacists disillusioned?
• Why pharmacy often resembles a religion or cult.
• Should pharmacists be more transparent about the risks versus benefits of pills?
• Are pharmacists as positive and supportive of drugs in conversations with close friends and family in comparison to discussions with customers?
• Do pharmacists take more (or fewer) pills than our customers?
• Do pharmacists feel that Americans are overmedicated (or grossly overmedicated)?
• Do pharmacists feel pressure from chain drug store corporate management to be basically positive and supportive toward drugs and to downplay adverse effects?
• Do pharmacists agree with Pharma's overwhelmingly mechanistic and reductionist approach toward illness?
• What causes many pharmacists to wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat?
• Do pharmacists feel that pharmacy school focuses too heavily on molecules, cells and chemistry rather than on the health of the whole person?
• Why are pharmacists silent about the uneven quality with some generic drugs?
• Do pharmacists feel that many of our customers would be healthier spending their money at a farmers market rather than at a drug store?
• Are pharmacists nagged by the concern that they are supporting and legitimizing a model of health based disproportionately on pills rather than prevention?
• Do pharmacists agree with Pharma's effort to portray health as a commodity that can be purchased at a drug store just like we purchase a refrigerator at Home Depot or Lowe's?